The new Hellenistic and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art [videorecording] / [lecture by] Carlos Picón ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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The new Hellenistic and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art [videorecording] / [lecture by] Carlos Picón ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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The opening of the Met's new galleries concluded a 15-year project for the complete redesign and reinstallation of the Museum's superb collection of classical art, much of it unseen by the public for generations. Carlos A. Picón, curator in charge of the Department of Greek and Roman Art, discusses the realization of the four-phase master plan and the installation of some 5,300 works, which were previously in storage, over two levels of new gallery spaces.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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